Höngg's Turnip Lantern Parade: Five Processions on the City's Busiest Saturday
✓ Checked at the source · as of 5 October 2026
No other entry in this calendar publishes as many times: five meeting points, each with its own assembly and departure time, ten times in all. Add five drummers, police and fire brigade on the routes, and a shared finish in front of the church. Now the day is fixed too — and it falls on exactly the Saturday on which the city of Zurich parades most anyway.
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Räbeliechtli Umzug Höngg
✓Saturday, 7 November 2026 · 1 day · 18:15–20:00
- Organiser
- Quartierverein Zürich-Höngg
A star march with five parades, each led by a drummer; police and fire brigade secure the routes.
Source: zuerich-hoengg.ch · checked on 5 October 2026
Each bar is a documented evening. Dark = this parade, light = the nearest ones. A parade lasts an hour and often falls on the same evening as another — read only a date and you miss that the next village sets off at the same minute.
- Zurich · HönggRäbeliechtli Umzug Höngg
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🚋 Meeting point & transport with stop
87 metres as the crow flies from the stop, about 1 minute on foot.
- Meeting point
- Kürbergstrasse / Am Börtli (Besammlung 18:30, Abmarsch 18:45) · Segantinistrasse / Regensdorferstrasse (18:30 / 18:45) · Tramstation Frankental (18:15 / 18:30) · Schulhaus Rütihof (18:15 / 18:30) · Schulhaus Am Wasser (18:30 / 18:45)
- Destination
- Platz vor der reformierten Kirche Höngg
- Nearest stop
- Zürich, Am Börtli (BUS) — 87 m as the crow flies
Coordinates © swisstopo · Stops: opentransportdata.swiss (FOT)
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- Food and drink
- Jedes Kind, das mit einem Räbeliechtli mitläuft, erhält gratis einen frischen Weggen
- In bad weather
- Findet bei jeder Witterung statt.
✨ Highlights on site
What sets this parade apart from every other one is not in its date.
The timetable meanwhile gives away something written down nowhere.
And then the bread roll with a condition attached. It is free for every child who walks with a turnip lantern — not for every child standing there. That sounds like a triviality and is in fact the whole attitude of the evening: this is not a refreshment stand, it is a reward for taking part. Come without a turnip and you are welcome, but you will not be in the queue at the end.
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🎯 Practical tips for the evening
- 1Take the nearest point, not the best-known oneFive starting points mean there is no main parade. All five end in the same place. The whole point of a star march is that nobody has to cross the district first in order to reach a procession.
🗺️ Nearby parades
Höngg parades on 7 November 2026 — precisely the Saturday one might have wanted to avoid. On the same evening 5 other parades in the calendar set off, 4 of them in other Zurich city neighbourhoods. That makes this Saturday level with the busiest evening of the season. For families from Höngg it makes no difference; they walk in their own neighbourhood anyway. For anyone looking for a parade in the city it means that on this evening it is not quality that decides but the postcode — and with five starting points Höngg offers the most chances to join in somewhere.
The ConvivaPlus turnip lantern calendar lists 23 parades, 19 of them with a verified date; in the canton of Zurich there are 12. The verified season runs from 30 October 2026 to 28 November 2026, the busiest evening being 7 November 2026 with 6 parades at once.
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In a star march several processions start in different residential areas and converge on the same destination, instead of everyone gathering in one place first.
The ConvivaPlus verdict
As an evening this is the most elaborate entry in the whole calendar, and you can see it in every detail: five processions, five drummers, a timetable to the quarter hour, the authorities on the routes. Anyone who has watched five chains of lights converge from five directions on the same square understands why a neighbourhood association takes this on. Our recommendation is correspondingly clear.
The date is here now, and it is also the only caveat: several other Zurich city neighbourhoods parade on the same evening. Residents of Höngg will not notice. Visitors from elsewhere pick their meeting point by tram line — Frankental is right at the terminus — and allow 15 minutes earlier for Frankental and Rütihof.
When we last checked: Date, meeting points, times and routes come from the events calendar on zuerich-hoengg.ch, source read on 5 October 2026; destination, refreshments and the weather rule from the same association's event page. How many parades run on the same evening is counted in the dataset, not estimated. That the two earlier departures relate to the distance to the finish is our reading of the timetable, not a statement by the organiser.
Check the latest: ConvivaPlus Turnip Lantern Dataset 2026 – Zurich · Höngg →
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How we check
According to the ConvivaPlus calendar, 9 of the 19 confirmed events this season start earlier than this one and 4 later.
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